Monday, April 7, 2014 - Friday, April 11, 2014

Clothesline Project Display

Clothesline Project Display (all week)

If you would like to add to the Clothesline we will be in the Academic Quad M/W/F from 12pm-1:30pm and T/Th 11:30am-1:30pm

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Time:
All Day

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The concept of the Clothesline Project is simple - let each person tell their story in their own unique way, using words and/or artwork to decorate their shirt. Once finished, they would then hang their shirt on the clothesline. This very action serves many purposes. It acts as an educational tool for those who come to view the Clothesline; it becomes a healing tool for anyone who makes a shirt - by hanging the shirt on the line, survivors, friends and family can literally turn their back on some of that pain of their experience and walk away; finally it allows those who are still suffering in silence to understand. www.clotheslineproject.org

If you would like to add to the Clothesline we will be in the Academic Quad M/W/F from 12pm-1:30pm and T/Th 11:30am-1:30pm

Monday, April 7, 2014

Take Back the Week Kick Off!

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Along with our community partners we will be distributing sexual assault prevention and intervention resources.

We will also have free giveaways to commemorate the week! T-shirts and totes will be distributed daily (M/W/F 12pm-1:30pm and T/Th 11:30-1:30pm.)

1BlueString (I in 6) will be sponsoring a guitar string changing station. Bring your guitar to the Quad, replace 1 of your 6 strings (the Low E string) with one of our blue strings, and help raise awareness for the 1 in 6 men in the U.S. who were sexually abused in childhood. A photo both will also be available if you would like to take a picture with and official 1BlueString guitar.

Monday, April 7, 2014

Talk by Professor Shelley Fisher Fishkin: Re-imagining America

The Oxy community is invited to a talk by Professor Shelley Fisher Fishkin of Stanford University, entitled "Re-imagining America: Sites of Trauma and Possibility in Cultural Memory". The talk will examine how Chinese and Mexican American artists and writers have re-imagined places and chapters of the past that are sites of haunting absence and ghostly presence in the cultural memory of their communities. It will discuss how contemporary artists and writers have transformed the U.S. -Mexico Border and the landscape of the Transcontinental Railroad-iconic sites of violence, erasure and invisibility-into sites of creativity.

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Time:
7:00 PM - 8:25 PM

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Professor Fishkin is the Joseph S. Atha Professor of Humanities and Director of American Studies at Stanford, where she is also the Co-Director of the Chinese Railroad Workers of North America Project. She is the author, editor or co-editor of over forty books, and has published over one hundred articles, essays and reviews, many of which have focused on issues of race and racism in America, and on recovering previously silenced voices from the past. She is also a past president of the American Studies Association and a Founding Editor of the "Journal of Transnational American Studies". The event is co-sponsored by American Studies, History, East Asian Languages & Cultures, and the Cultural Studies Program with support from the Remsen Bird Fund.